Iran executes 23 drug smugglers in crackdown
Iran reports 23 more executions for narcotics smuggling raising total to 47 this year. IRNA says executions occurred in Tehran and other cities as a broad campaign targets opium heroin and marijuana traffickers from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Poland weighs reversal of non-sanctioned unions policy
In Warsaw the Communist Party Central Committee considered a draft resolution to allow workers to decide unions' futures and to grant broader citizen participation, hinting at potential legalization of Solidarity though hard‑liners resist. The draft also seeks faster round table talks and the liquidation of 15 party departments to curb bureaucracy.
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Northern Ireland police say former reserve officer killed in Ireland
In Ballintra, County Donegal, 25 year old Harry Keyes, a former Northern Ireland reserve policeman, was shot in his car while taking his girlfriend Anne Friel home. The IRA is suspected as the attacker. Keyes’s girlfriend was dragged from the vehicle before the shots. A second incident in Belfast left a soldier with minor injuries after a bomb targeted a joint army police patrol.
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